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This week, a Senate-passed bill to create a state fund to provide psychedelics to military veterans was taken up by a Maryland House of Delegates. The goal of the fund is to provide “cost-free” access to substances such as psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic…

Dr Joe Kidney, respiratory physician at the Belfast Trust, has spoken to Belfast Live about the risks of Rhinovirus

Documents released to a Jesmond campaigner show why the Infected Blood Inquiry was announced on July 11 2017 - and explain the reasons which saw the Government change its mind

The highly infectious BA.2 strain of Covid, which is considered to be a subvariant of Omicron, is being blamed for the current surge

Dr Holohan, who has been CMO at the Department of Health since 2008, is stepping down to take up a new job as Professor of Public Health Strategy and Leadership at Trinity College Dublin from July

Dr Holohan will begin the role on July 1, having served as CMO since the summer of 2008.

Despite the military being the second-largest economic sector, Hawaiians are fed up with their malfeasance

In Hawaii, senators approved two identical measures to form a psilocybin working group, Marijuana Moment reported. The goal of the group would be to explore the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic, but the resolutions were amended and patient access will be contingent on federal approval of psilocybin. Both proposals —sponsored by…

Secretary of State Brandon Lewis has set out the legislative options being explored in a written ministerial statement.